George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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ARNOl THE LET FINALLY ARNOLD ARRIVES iRSDALE I And the minute HE WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR, ARNOLD IS ENGAGED IN A BRIEF, FRIENDLY CONVERSATION WITH HIS PARENTS WHICH LASTS FOR... THE NEXT

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basement of Monroe was one of the warm ones. Dr. Stephens opened the session with the statement that the department was open to — wanted, in fact — a strong role for the undergraduate majors in determining the curriculum. Everybody began as friends and quickly launched into a substantive discussion of individual courses, with a minimum of rancor. The sociology session was an example of the dialogue at its best. The English meeting was another story. Open combat and incoherence were both present. The rancor of the opening session returned, but here it was focused, more specific. Communication seemed to give way again to posturing. A professor: “The reason we don’t teach black authors in the literature survey is that theyTe not in the anthology.” A student: “Sit down and let me finish. I have to listen to you six hours every week. You can just listen to me for a change.” One girl, practically in tears, wondered whether the English faculty really loved literature. But it was a beginning. At the end of the day, many of the members of the GW community had some of the flesh of experience to hang around the skeleton for analysis which President Dixon presented in his opening address. He had said that the university has survived until now with the assistance of strangers. Certainly many of us went through the day like strangers exposing ourselves to each other for the first time. If we are to get to Dixon’s second image - a university getting by with the help of friends — we must have more dialogue. Even more important, we must collectively take it upon ourselves to see that the dialogue results in change. If the faculty and or the administration sees what happened Friday as an end instead of a beginning, their prediction may become self-fulfilling in an ugly way they did not expect. If students see “dialogue” only as a forum for symbolic, pre-determined action, they too will suffer. President Dixon pointed out the frustration which even an institution such as Antioch encounters in attempting to remove or renovate its structure. Our structure is far more calcified than theirs, and our dangers therefore greater. We had better get out of our postures, get ourselves together, get on with it. If you don’t know what “it” is n get into the dialogue.

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NIGHT AND -EAVES G.W.U. FOR EKEND OUT I E LACE WO DAYS NO DAD, SOME OF THE GINS IN THE DORM DO USE DRUGS BUT NOT ME... BUT PAD, A D STANDS FOR DOING WELL HONEST .